Shawl
about 1875
Medium/TechniqueJacquard woven 1/7 Satin ground patterned with supplementary continuous patterning wefts tied in 3/1 Z twill, clipped; warp: silk plied with wool; main weft: wool and cotton; pattern weft: wool
DimensionsHeight x width: 309.9 × 155.6 cm (122 × 61 1/4 in.)
Credit LineGift of the American Textile History Museum—Martha Bayles Boyd Collection
Accession number2017.1257
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ProvenanceMarch 1992, sold by Maureen Boyd to Martha Bayles Boyd (b.1929-d.2010), Reston, Virginia; 2001, given by Martha Bayles Boyd, Reston, Virginia, to the American Textile History Museum, Lowell, MA (2001.157.341); 2017, gift of the American Textile History Museum to the MFA. (Accession date: June 21, 2017)